The EPEA Training Conference 2025

Skopje, North Macedonia, November 11th-15th

EPEA have decided to have the next training conference in Skopje from Tuesday afternoon, November 11th, until Saturday noon, November 15th.

Our partner in North Macedonia is EKE Bitola, an NGO involved in Education in prison and known from cooperation in the framework of Erasmus+ projects.

For all potential participants who may apply for Erasmus+ funds to be in a position to participate in the conference we can assure that the overall cost will be in line with the latest EPEA conferences.

The conference fee will include all meals except one dinner. Accommodation will be possible at the venue but could be anywhere in the city and is the participant’s responsibility.

We will provide more detailed information before the end of January.

Call for Contributions:

The training conference shall be a platform for the different stakeholders involved in education in prison. So, we address teachers, researchers, prison staff, responsible and decision-makers of the authorities and ex incarcerated persons who benefitted from education in prison.

You are invited to contribute to the conference as a speaker in the plenary or as a workshop leader, for a smaller public.

If your contribution is chosen by the Steering Committee, further, you would be rewarded with a significantly reduced conference fee.

Find here the form to offer your contribution here.

Open the document in write-protected mode and move throughout with the tab so that you can fill out the form, keep a copy for yourself.

We are looking forward to meet you in Skopje and to have an inspiring professional exchange with you.

Thomas Wüthrich, Chair

General Information

EPEA have decided to have the next training conference in Skopje from Tuesday afternoon, November 11th, until Saturday
noon, November 15th.

Our partner in North Macedonia is EKE Bitola, an NGO involved in Education in prison and known from cooperation in
the framework of Erasmus+ projects.

The programme will offer around 20 training workshops as well as keynotes speakers and round tables in the plenary.

so that potential particpants can apply for erasmus + funding, we wish to provide the following information

  • The main objectives of the conference are:
  • Learn about the reality in Education in Prison all over Europe
  • Exchange of expertise from all professions involved in Education in Prison
  •  Know more about best practices in Education in Prison
  • Learn from practitioner’s and researcher’s expertise
  •  Exchange of experiences in the daily life of teaching in prison
  • Reflecting on one’s own professional experience in Education in Prison
  • Building up a personal network for continuing sustainable exchange after the conference.


the conference fee will be

  •  EPEA members 390€
  •  Non-members 450€

reduced fee by 50% for

  • contributors (speakers and workshop leaders)
  • participants from the CoE countries in Eastern and Southern Europe
  • (AD, AL, AM, AZ, BA, CY, CZ, EE, ES, GE, GR, HR, HU, IT, LT, LV, MD, ME,
  • MK, MT, PL, PT, RO, RS, SK, SI, TR)

The fee is in line with the recent EPEA conferences.

The conference fee will include all meals except one lunch. Accommodation will be available at the venue and will cost €90 per room and person per night (twin rooms for 2 persons are available and cost 105€)

Preferably you stay at the venue, but you can stay anywhere in the city and is the participant’s responsibility to arrange this.

We hope this gives you enough information to apply for your funding and we look forward to see many of you in Skopje next November.

Registration will start in April

the EPEA STEERING COMMITTEE